Shortcake

Apple Shortcake is a soft and buttery, flaky shortcake base and topping with a cinnamon apple filling that is perfect for breakfast, brunch or dessert! Apple shortcake is an old fashioned classic recipe that should definitely have a place in your baking repertoire.

Because I’m me, I had to tweak the apple shortcake recipe. (I really can’t help myself). A lot of the recipes I have seen for apple shortcake use just regular sugar so I added a touch of icing sugar for added sweetness and to give the shortcake a slight melt-in-the-mouth feel from the cornflour in the icing sugar. Not so much that it turns into more of a shortbread but just enough to melt in the mouth while still being light, soft and flaky.

I made this recipe as a little experiment and I have to say it was a delicious and very successful experiment! This Boysenberry Cheesecake Shortcake is a soft and crumbly shortcake base and top with boysenberry jam and a soft and creamy cheesecake center. This was a massive hit with my family.

The idea started when I was dreaming about this Plum and Pear Slice. I nearly gave in and made it but I had an extra container of cream cheese in the fridge and I didn’t have any plum jam. Or pears for that matter. So to avoid a trip to the supermarket I began thinking of other things I could try.

I love shortcake and have never really made one. I’ve made the odd one over the years but they never turned out exactly how I want them. So I began researching on the internet and found a few different recipes and decided to use those as guides and create my own ‘shortcake’.